| 书目名称 | Shifting Paradigms in Public Health | | 副标题 | From Holism to Indiv | | 编辑 | Vijay Kumar Yadavendu | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Addresses paradigmatic shifts in public health discourse from the ancient to the modern world, with a focus on epidemiology.Draws on perspectives from the social sciences, medicine, and history.Discus | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This transdisciplinary volume outlines the development of public health paradigms across the ages in a global context and argues that public health has seemingly lost its raison d’être, that is, a population perspective. The older, philosophical approach in public health involved a holistic, population-based understanding that emphasized historicity and interrelatedness to study health and disease in their larger socio-economic and political moorings. A newer tradition, which developed in the late 19th century following the acceptance of the germ theory in medicine, created positivist transitions in epidemiology. In the form of risk factors, a reductionist model of health and disease became pervasive in clinical and molecular epidemiology. .The author shows how positivism and the concept of individualism removed from public health thinking the consideration of historical, social and economic influences that shape disease occurrence and the interventions chosen for a population. He states that the neglect of the multifactorial approach in contemporary public health thought has led to growing health inequalities in both the developed and the developing world. He further suggests tha | | 出版日期 | Book 2013 | | 关键词 | Class differences in mortality; Dominant paradigms in public health; Holistic perspectives in epidemio | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1644-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-81-322-2929-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-81-322-1644-5 | | copyright | Springer India 2013 |
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